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Revisiting The Last Soldier of the Somme

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn... Volume One!

Hi everyone, The cat's finally out of the bag, and I can officially announce that "The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn" will be coming out as a series of graphic novels from the fine folks at Ten Speed Graphic! This moment has been a LONG time

More Oscar Zahn Comic Strips and a cool horror Kickstarter

Hi everyone, welcome back to another edition (I've given up on numbering them) of Tomago House, my bi-weekly(ish) newsletter... blog... thing where I try to keep you up to date on the stuff that's going on with me. Sadly a lot of stuff I'

NINJAGO: SHATTERSPIN #1

Hi everyone! In case you hadn't heard Ninjago: Shatterspin #1 was recently announced by Skybound and Image comics. After the Garmadon graphic novel, I received a lot of questions about whether I would be returning to the Ninjago franchise but I had to keep my answers vague until

Oscar Zahn Comic Strips

Happy belated New Year everyone! Sorry I've been missing in action for so long but I've been busy working on some projects that I think will be announced very soon! It's been a hectic end to 2023 and a frantic beginning to 2024, but

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SUPER TOMAGO #11: Revisiting Oscar

Tomago House #13: Rashguards and Raccoons

Hi everyone! Welcome back and thanks for taking the time to read my bi-weekly (ish) newsletter. It's been a busy month juggling multiple projects, big and small, but here are a few things that I've been dabbling with: Tanuki Martial Arts Rash Guard Design This summer

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SUPER TOMAGO #10: The Return of Oscar Zahn?

Happy Halloween, everyone! I'm writing to you while sitting on my porch on what might be the last nice day of Autumn, where jackets are optional and the sun is still out at a reasonable time (i.e., 4 PM). If you've been following my Instagram,

Tomago House #12: I need a vacation from my vacation.

When I left for Europe a couple weeks ago for my first vacation since the pandemic, I was hopeful that it would be somewhat of a restful trip. This was going to be the first time since going freelance that I did not have to take work with me. Every

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SUPER TOMAGO #9: Prologue 3: The Final Prologue-ing

Tomago House #11: Where did summer go?

Whoah, what the heck? Why is it the middle of September already? I don’t know about you guys, but this was a very strange summer for me. It hasn’t been a bad one or even an overly busy one, it just seemed like it didn’t exist at

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SUPER TOMAGO #8: Revising the Prologue.

Tomago House #10: A Typical Day.

Happy August, everyone! Thanks for taking the time to read this month's newsletter. I've been making good progress on "Big Dreamers" and have finally gotten into the flow of the project. It's going to be quite a large book, over two hundred

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SUPER TOMAGO #7: Every first draft is bad.

Hey everyone! This week I made some pretty significant progress on the opening story arc for Lancer (which is still a working name). I THINK it might be pretty close to its final form, although truth be told, I always think that's the case only to discover some

Tomago House #9: Cameras and Interviews

Happy July everyone! Here in Toronto we are currently experiencing a swelteringly hot summer but I would imagine this is also the case for the rest of the world since the Earth just experienced the hottest day ever recorded.  Ugh... global warming... On the plus side, I did get snag

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SUPER TOMAGO #6: Lancer Character Designs

Big Dreamers

Tomago House #8: Big Dreamers

Hi everyone, I hope you're all enjoying the early days of summer wherever you might be in the world. Here in Toronto, we are currently dealing with some unusually hot weather for this time of year. The temperature is nearly 30 degrees Celsius, which is pretty sweltering heat

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Lancer

SUPER TOMAGO #5: AI and Comics

After a longer-than-expected hiatus, I've finally managed to carve out some dedicated time for Lancer. Last time, I shared my progress and mentioned being somewhat satisfied with the outline. However, there was a minor hiccup—I needed to change the name since there's already a mech

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Tomago House #7: TCAF Post Mortem

Welp, I survived TCAF and had a great time doing so!   This was my first convention in six or seven years (I'm naturally a bit of a hermit) but since I have actual books now to promote, I'm doing my darnedest to pull up my big

Tomago House #6: Lessons Learned

Welp, I did it.   After several weeks of editing, reformatting, proof reading and designing, "Anchovie Akiyama in The Glass Chanterelle" is off to the printer and my book should arrive two days before TCAF begins. It's definitely cutting it closer than I'd like, but

Tomago House #5: Everything is always on fire.

The Best Laid Plans So it turns out to be a working comic artist, you not only have to make comic books  but also let people know about the the books you've made.  Armed with this knowledge, i decided to break from my longstanding tradition of never attending

SUPER TOMAGO #4: Concept Art

Welcome back everyone! Last week I crossed a major milestone for "Lancer" (still gonna refer to the comic as that for now) and completed an outline for the series as well as a plot breakdown for the first story arc. This isn't the final outline but

Tomago House #4: Everything is research.

Ever since I decided I was going to do a gritty mech space opera as my next project, I've been consuming as much science fiction media as I can. Mostly I've been revisiting a lot of old shows that I was obsessed with as a kid,

SUPER TOMAGO #3:What do you mean there's already a "LANCER"???

What's in a name? Hi! Welcome to the third installment of SUPER TOMAGO, my development blog for "Lancer", a sci-fi mech space opera comic that I'm trying to bring to fruition. When I decided to start this newsletter, I thought it would be interesting

Tomago House #3: Focus.

Hello from the past! I'm writing this post on the first week of February while Toronto is in the midst of a polar vortex. However, since I like to have about a month's worth of buffer for my posts, by the time you read this newsletter